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Change your language.

Try to avoid using absolute words such as never, always, I can`t, and hate.
Vicious cycles usually include those words. Instead, replace them with neutral or positive words and phrases, such as I`ll give it my best. Thus, instead of thinking negative thoughts, say to yourself I can do this.

We must beware of using a veneer of obedience to mask a sinful heart. Living the Christian life is not all about rules. The Pharisees in Jesus’ time relentlessly pursued acts of obedience to the Law, but they became self-righteous, believing they deserved heaven because of what they had done.

NEVER say: "I wish my marriage/relationship was like hers/his/theirs." The fight that couple have endured is not seen. Always say you want the relationship God has ORDAINED for you.

PSA for the husband and wife marriage.

Husband's (the man) set the tone of the home.
Wives (the woman) creates the atmosphere.

Have you ever been in a house where you felt "some type of way?" You just didn't feel easy or comfortable? Why is that?

My husband Jesse is not a confrontational man. He's a peaceful man. Never fussy or uptight. Therefore, my home is of peace and comfort.

I'll create the atmosphere. I feed off his responsibility as lead. So, I create a meal, entertain, and enforce what he's established. We balance each other.

.....and we're back!

This was a conversation we had last night and I'd like to share it with you.

LADIES PLEASE TAKE NOTE!!!!! Men attend to Women for two reasons, S*X, and LOVE, but in most cases, men do not Marry for S*x or for Love, they marry for STABILITY.

Let me explain
A man can Love you and not Marry you.
A man can have s*x with you for years without marrying you. But immediately he finds someone who brings stability in his life, he marries her.

What I mean by Stability is "Peace of Mind"
I have seen some guys who made this statement "I love this lady but I don't think I can spend the rest of my life with her." Men are visionaries when they think about marriage, they do not think about wedding dresses, bridesmaids, anything that most Ladies thinks is fanciful.
They think whether this woman can build me a home,Can she take care of my kids and I,Can she give me PEACE of mind?. Men don't like Ladies who gives them discomfort, This is why a man can stay with a woman for years and meet another in a month, then get married to her.
It's the comfort of having Peace of Mind they want.
S*x is a pleasure, love is an affection, RESPECT is Stability.

Hey it's been a while!!

Spring fever and weddings are in our midst. We'd like to drop a nugget as to why Premarital Counseling is vital to you as husband (man) and wife (woman).

Premarital counseling helps identify core beliefs, set realistic expectations for marriage, plan for the future, and decide the ways in which your lives will be merged.

Premarital Counseling:

7 Topics You should Discuss before the Wedding
Many couples forgo premarital counseling.

They feel like their love is “strong enough” to forgo any possible relationship landmines hidden in that particular prenuptial activity.

That may be true. But most married couples will tell you:

Communication is everything.

So, the higher the postnuptial disappointment and divorce numbers climb, the more therapy and solid communication prior to “I do” seem to make sense.

What are the key topics partners should talk about before heading down the aisle?

Consider the following 7 vital premarital discussions:

1. The meaning of the marriage commitment.
Why do you want to marry each other? Express what you believe about marriage and how you think it will benefit your lives. Share which behaviors you believe are off-limits in your marriage and those you hope to incorporate. Discuss how you are willing to protect and honor your commitment.

2. Your individual and combined goals and aspirations.
Discuss the life goals that matter most to you. Clearly lay out your strategies for the short and long-term. What career, community, and family objectives mean most? Consider what you both think will be necessary in the way of planning and sacrifice to achieve them.

3. Your relationship expectations.
Often partners don’t realize how dissimilar their perceptions and expectations are for overall marital satisfaction. Talk about how you hope to support and be supported. How much togetherness and time alone makes you comfortable? Are you willing to honor agreements regarding time allotted for work, recreation, and intimacy? How important will personal hobbies, friendships, and family time be in your daily life?

4. Your ideas regarding family planning or family blending.
If, how, and when you start a family is a crucial discussion prior to marriage. Be sure you are on the same page regarding your willingness to have and raise children. How many would you like to have? How will you handle potential challenges in making that a reality? How will you handle parenting children from previous relationships? Will you take preventative measures until you’re both ready? Discuss openly the child-rearing philosophies, values, and disciplinary measures that are important to you.

5. Your perceptions and expectations regarding money matters.
Work out a system for financial review and accountability. Talk about your money histories honestly and share current circumstances openly. Take a look at the salary differential between you and your feelings about it. Also, look at your expectations regarding breadwinning and lifestyle as your family grows. Seriously consider how bills, personal and combined debt, credit, taxes, and savings will be managed.

6. Your home life and living arrangements.
Discuss how you imagine your everyday life together. Will you live near family or do you hope to make a life elsewhere? Discuss whether homeownership or living in certain socio-economic locations are important to you. Is the goal to recreate the lifestyle you had as children or to build an entirely different home life? Consider too, how you might expect the needs of your aging parents to factor into your life together.

7. Your plan for resolving conflict productively.
Merging your lives will undoubtedly lead to a measure of conflict initially and throughout your life together. It is crucial to commit to handling disagreements and your relationship before lingering ill-will or contempt creep in. Counseling will help you recognize and manage points of conflict and ineffective communication patterns early. Discuss how you will “fight” with more tolerance and less resentment.

Humility, wear it like a garment. Consider Jesus Christ and His willingness to be humiliated and tormented for our sake. He left the highest place to go to the lowest place and endure every kind of betrayal and pain imaginable leaving no rock unturned. He had done NO wrong, Yet He chose to suffer. (What’s the hardest thing you’ll suffer today, holding your tongue?) Our light afflictions and random offenses compel in comparison. Let’s check our hearts and kill pride one circumstance and situation at a time. Humility is not weakness but rather strength. Prayer/faith and corresponding action should not be a last resort or weak response but rather our lifestyle. When we live this way we eradicate every kind divisive evil plot hell attempts to conjure.
Consider 1 Peter 5... , wear it like a garment. Consider Jesus Christ and His willingness to be humiliated and tormented for our sake. He left the highest place to go to the lowest place and endure every kind of betrayal and pain imaginable leaving no rock unturned. He had done NO wrong, Yet He chose to suffer. (What’s the hardest thing you’ll suffer today, holding your tongue?) Our light afflictions and random offenses compel in comparison. Let’s check our hearts and kill pride one circumstance and situation at a time. Humility is not weakness but rather strength. Prayer/faith and corresponding action should not be a last resort or weak response but rather our lifestyle. When we live this way we eradicate every kind divisive evil plot hell attempts to conjure.
Consider 1 Peter 5
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Meditation. Bible study. Prayer. Solitude. Worship. Community. Confession. Fasting. These are non-negotiable for spiritual maturity and continued intimacy with God. People who struggle with consistency and intimacy in their walk with God are the ones that constantly place everything ahead of God. Spiritually mature Christians do not allow time or busyness to be excuses. They find time. They create space. They make whatever sacrifices necessary to live a spiritually disciplined life.

Spiritually mature Christians glean insight from everyone. They have conversations with atheists, Muslims, Buddhists, Catholics, Baptists, and Pentecostals with the goal of learning.

This stands in stark contrast to some Christians who believe their job is to fix everyone who does not think like them. They are the spiritual “fix it” men (and women) who never leave home without their tool belt.

But not spiritually mature Christians. They understand their perspective is limited. They acknowledge God doesn’t need spiritual police, he needs passionate followers. And followers are listeners. Followers are gleaners. Followers are convicted of their beliefs but are not so close-minded that everyone else is wrong. They understand listening to another viewpoint does not equate to condoning or accepting it.

I have reached 200 followers! Thank you for your continued support. I could not have done it without each of you. 🙏🤗🎉

Information (God's Word) will bring Revelation (an unveiling) to cause transformation (change).
If clean water and bitter water flow from your mouth and you're preaching, teaching or leading worship👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾check yourself. Don't be one those who stand before HIM and he says "you preached about me, taught about me, sang and wrote about me, thank you but I don't KNOW you. Depart from me."

General revelation also known as Universal revelation, general revelation deals with how God can be understood through his creation. More specifically, this can be manifest in physical nature, human nature, and history.

Special revelation is distinguished from general revelation in that it is direct revelation from God. Examples include God's direct speech to various people (e.g., prophets; cf. 2 Peter 1:20-21), the incarnation (cf. Hebrews 1:1-2), and the Bible. Such revelation is sufficient to communicate the gospel, unlike general revelation, and thus salvation is possible only through special revelation.

"I sought the Lord, and He heard me,
And delivered me from all my fears.
I looked to Him and Sparkled,
And my face was not ashamed.
Psalm 34:4-5

BEFORE you pray and ask God to heal this land you must first have a clean heart. Secondly, have a changed mindset so you can humble yourself before the Lord. THIRD, you must pray with a pure heart. Pray (anoint your head/yourself) for yourself, immediate family, extended family, community, the body of Christ, those in authority (national, state and local). Be specific and write them down if you have to. Be straight up with God and watch how the matters of your heart be changed. That's the healing.
2 Chronicles 7:14

Thought for today: Galatians 5:16 “walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh. Notice Romans 6:11&13 Recon (consider) yourselves to be dead (separated) from sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus our Lord. Neither yield (surrender) your members(mind and body)as instruments of unrighteousness.” The flesh is an expression used to describe the place of everything in us that oppose God’s will for His expression in us. As a result believers live emotionally and not Spiritually. It is a life based on feelings,instead of the leading of the Holy Ghost. Your emotions were not given to you for your expression, but that they should be yielded to Christ to express Himself through you. You’re not to be broken, or angry or sad, or hurt by anything or anyone to the extent you become disconnected from God. Let us consider this, and have a life of power in Jesus’s name. Love you all.

What’s better long term protection in submitting to the entire counsel of God’s word, or short term superficial blessing while imminent discipline or judgement is just around the corner?

2Tim 4:2-3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

2 I am writing to Timothy, my dear son.

May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.

Encouragement to Be Faithful
3 Timothy, I thank God for you—the God I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors did. Night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. 4 I long to see you again, for I remember your tears as we parted. And I will be filled with joy when we are together again.

5 I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you. 6 This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

8 So never be ashamed to tell others about our Lord. And don’t be ashamed of me, either, even though I’m in prison for him. With the strength God gives you, be ready to suffer with me for the sake of the Good News. 9 For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus.

Jesus had an opportunity to flee and walk away but Jesus walked a little way further into the garden and began to pray. He fell on his knees - most people at that time stood to pray.

Jesus was praying not just to avoid a terrible death, but to discover God's will and to find the strength to cope with what was coming; he was providing a concrete example of the value of prayer

There is POWER in your IDENTITY.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6

Let's break this verse down into how it can play out in our lives today...

Trust - the opposite of worry. Every time I start to feel those pangs of worry, I should see it as a call to verbalize, out loud, my trust in God.

Lean not on my own understanding - Oh, how I want to be in control of things that affect my loved ones and me. But in most situations I can’t just stand tall in my own strength and manipulate the circumstances around me. I must learn to lean. Rest fully on the Lord and His perspective of all situations.

In all my ways acknowledge Him - Instead of letting my emotions and feelings run away from me, I must reign them in to be an acknowledgement of who is really in control here. (James 1:22)

He will make our paths straight - The shortest path to God’s richest blessings is always paved with trust and obedience. My head knows this… Lord, will you help my heart catch up?

[4102 (pistis) in secular antiquity referred to a guarantee (warranty). In Scripture, faith is God's warranty, certifying that the revelation He inbirthed will come to pass (His way).

Faith (4102/pistis) is always received from God, and never generated by us.

Ro 12:3: "For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith (4102/pistis)" (NASU).

I dont rejoice by situation. i rejoice by revelation!!!

The righteousness of God is revealed from Faith to Faith.

Sometimes we become apprehensive from what we've been through. It takes the promise of God to overcome the negatives of our past.

The promise now blocks the consequences of your past. The promise of God brings to a hault the consequences of the past and begins to renew your tomorrow.

🚩🎯 GOD: My promise separates the old you from the new you.

THERES ALWAYS A "YET" WITH GOD.
Them: Do you have that land?
Me: I don't have it YET!
Them: Do you have the building?
Me: I don't have it YET but it's coming.